Opm 2025 Pay Raise. In the last week of 2024, president joe biden signed an executive order providing an average 2% federal civilian employee pay raise applicable to statutory pay rates, including the general schedule. The office of personnel management (opm) pay scale for 2025 is making headlines, with updates that affect federal employees nationwide.
The white house issued an executive order finalizing the 2025 federal employee pay raise of an overall average of 2%. Now with the 2% federal pay raise for 2025, pay compression is affecting 37 of the 58 — or about 64% — of locality pay areas.